This is one remarkable find in the youtube galaxy: early footage of Amon Düül II performing psychedelic punk freak-outs blended with beautiful shots of a strangely solemn german countryside. As far as I know the camera is operated by a young Wim Wenders.
As a performer and a videast, I am strongly interested by both dance, performing and video !
Recently, on of my friend showed me this stuning work by Klaus Obermaier in inyteractive video,
I naturally wanted to share it with you !
An interactive dance and media performance conceived and directed by Klaus Obermaier, in collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab, featuring Desirée Kongerød and Rob Tannion.
– What choreography emerges when software is your partner?
– When virtual and actual image space share the same physics?
– Where everything that moves on the stage is both interactive and independent?
– And any form, dancing or still, can be transformed into a kinetic projection surface?
This week I want to share one of my passion, which is Street art. I have been for years enjoying different artists, graphs, stencils, tags and so on…
Blu, is one of the best in a specific style, he paints walls, image after image, deleting, painting again, and creating animated short movies !
Please enjoy his version of the big bang: an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life … and how it could probably end.
direction and animation by BLU blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI
In this music video to one of his songs, the great psychedelic artist Jimi Hendrix is spiritually resurrected. During one night of camping outdoors, a group of hikers face an alteration of time and space where his spirit never died and returns for a magical performance.
I already talked about Jan Kounen, one of my favorite movie director, actor, writer and documentary maker in psychedelia …
Today, I want to show you “The last red chaperone”, his version of the famous fairy…
It’s in french and spanish subtitled, but the fact here is much more about the visuals and the techniques he used to give us the perception he wanted, and it’s a success !
In case you ever thought that even a bad trip has some truth to tell you, there should be more than enough truth in this show to endure its uncanny “realism”.
Please be careful watching this in any unstable condition of the mind and… enjoy!
A Japanese Alice in wonderland falls down the rabbit hole in search of her cellphone and lands in a bizarre world of magical brands. This amazing Superflat Louis Vitton by Takashi Murakami bears resemblance to Murakami’s Superflat First Love, and uses similar motives. It is a yet higher level of the mixture of the worlds of psychedelia, consumerism and magic.